Using Blockchain to Ensure Provenance and Enable Carbon Trading

How do you make sure that the high-value seeds you are planting are actually the variety that you want? Jim Cupples of Terrapin Data will talk about how his company is partnering with OSU and High Grade Hemp Seed Company to develop a system that ensures the high-value specialty seeds a farmer purchases are the same ones that arrive for planting. Justin Jones, Director of Oregon Operations for HGH Seed will also be available to talk about their value-added seed production and the importance of provenance in a trust-challenged industry.

Jim and his team at Terrapin Data have also developed a drone-to-blockchain platform called AgCheck that communicates images directly to blockchain allowing quick verification for farms’ and ranches’ claims about their food production methods.

We’ll also hear about how blockchain can position agricultural operations to benefit from carbon trading regimes by confirming agricultural practices that sequester carbon.

Jim Cupples has founded several data-based companies and is committed to working in agriculture technology and data. He likes taking big, unwieldy, and meaningful data problems and turning them into something that everyday people can use and derive value from.

Justin Jones is Director of Oregon Operations for High Grade Seed Company and the International Hemp Exchange.

Come for the interesting topic, stay for the free food, drink and conversation!